Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1887-03-25
THE FLOOD CONTINUES.
A Rising River from Yank
ton to Washburn.
The Lower Tributaries Emptying
their Floods Into the Missouri.
Steady Increase in tho Volume OF
Water at this Point.
AT

AT YANKTON.
Since yesterdays report the rives has
risen about two feet at Yankton and is
now nearly bank full at the higher bot
tom points. In the lowest place on the
Nebraska side the food is running over
the bank into the sloughs and o oon-
isidereble lake is visible below the old
site OF Green Island. On the Dakota
bottom in the neighborhood OF the
mouth of the Jim the water is slowly
encroaching Y the low spots. Many.
Of the wagon roads contain q few inches
of water, which is seeking a route to the
bluff slouges beyond. The bars in 'front.'
Of the city are nearly submerged and the
lower end of Smutty Bear bottom is re-
ceiving q baptism. The river is steadily
rising.
w. a. Stearns. who was in to-day from
his up river bottom farm, says the water
commenced running in upon the bottom
above him yesterday and that from the
Russian mill to the Nebraska bluffs was
one unbroken sheet of water. Two feet
more OF rise will v Mr.. Steurns'
plantati on. He has moved his family and
stock and personal effects to the bluffs.
feeling certain that there is danger 10
remaining upon the bottom. AS the up
river accounts indicate more water, this
is probably q wise conclusion.
RAILROAD wAsHouT.
There Is q low spot on the bottom be-
tween Burbank and Elk Point, through
which the water is running and q few
rods Of tbs Milwaukee track was washed
ont to-day at that point. The passenger
train east from this city and the accom-
mediation west from Sioux City met
ct this break this morning, exchanged
. s .asengers, baggage and mail and re-
sdrned. The Yankton train went on to
Marion junction, where it will connect
I with eBst and weet bound trains on the
upper line and return this evening. For
the present direct communication be.
tween Yankton and Elk Point is cut off
by water.
UPPER RIVER CONDITIONS.
From the stretch of river between Bis-
marck and Yankton come accounts OF
foods which are very largely caused by
an %outpouring OF the waters OF inter
mediate streams, and the rise and fall Of
the Missouri below Bismarck is not
therefore to DO governed entirely by the
how from the ice dam near Bismarck.
The Grand, the Moreau, the Cheyenne,
the Bad, the White and the Niobrara
are ell large streams ia the food season
and they drain the slope west Of the
Missouri. between Bismarck and Yank-
ton. Grand river is the first consider
able stream below Bismarck. Thirty
miles below Grand river the MORGAN
empties into the Missouri. Eighty
miles below the MORGAN comes the
Cheyenne, fifty miles farther down is tie
Bad, one hundred and forty.fiye miles
below is the White and q hundred and
thirty miles down stream from the
AA0Aeh - WAC NAAb0 tnO GylODIhEh l@ G1cts
All these rivers are attaining food pro-
portions and are pouring their volume
into the Missouri. From this source
high water can be expected at Yankton
independent Of any rise at Bismarck. 1t
is stated that the food in the Moreau
raises the water above the tree tops and
that the Missouri below the mouth OF
that stream is six feet higher than in
1881 and is covering all the bottom land.
We oan therefore look for O
considerable rise at this point from the
aSaioreau and its companion streams OF
the westward slope,
From above Bismarck come accounts
of q heavy increase in the food height.
At Washburn, fifty miles above Bis
marck, the Missouri is said to be ten
feet above the high water mark Of 1881
This quantity of water precipitated in
to the ice dam at Bismarck will
carry the food ct that point much
higher than it has been. It is also ex-
pected that the gorge in Heart river, OPP
posite Bismarck, will give way about
the time the Washburn rise arrives and
this vii! sss.:sill further sugment the food
at that point and the weight Of water
and ice may carry oat the Sibley Island
gorge.
All these conditions promise much
higher water as Yankton than has yet
been experienced.
--LATEST Ell MAIL.
Bi smarck, March 24--The water fell
two feet yesterday, but is rising again
to. day. The water in Washburn, fifty
miles above here, is ten feet above the
high water mark OF 1881. while here it is
not quite up to that recosd. This shows
that there is . gorge between here and
Wnshburn, and when that ten feet Of
water comes 1t will make ME- food SUI
pass any previous record. There are
prospects for the Heart river to break
about the time the upper gorge bresxs
and If does Mandan viii be aaoat. The
steamer ToiApkins, which was cruahed
in the ice nesr Bowdle to-day, was the
pr ,pessy Of the Evans trapsportationi
company, and its ruin just as navigation